I would like to inform anybody who is interessted in OpenEMM with Joomla! that I have released a component to connect from Joomla! 1.5 to OpenEMM.At the moment there is the possibility to: search, change, add and delete subscriber and to add and change the mailinglist.Through a module endusers can subscribe by themselfs.It's the first version but I will extend/improve the component in future.

This will make creating an "interesting" extension quite hard... Are there any examples where others have used direct database access rather than SOAP to build extensions and how much effort is there in maintaining this as and when upgrades to the db schema occur?